Dakota Golde, Justine Reyes and Nadine Edney scored goals to lead the No. 6/7 St. Lawrence University women’s hockey team to a 3-1 win over No. 10 Princeton University in an ECAC Hockey contest at Hobey Baker Rink in Princeton, N.J., on Friday night.
“We played another solid game tonight,” said head coach Chris Wells ’92. “We scored at some key points of the game to keep the momentum. Princeton had many chances just go wide early on and hit the post on one as well. We really had a strong second period to keep the pressure on and we were able to finish the game and get the win.”
The Saints struck first, with Golde scoring her first collegiate goal halfway through the first period. Hannah Miller picked up a loose puck inside the left circle and passed it back to Golde at the point. The first-year from Rolling Meadows, Ill., sent in a blast that beat Princeton goaltender Alysia DaSilva high on the blocker side.
Reyes increased the lead with a power play goal at the halfway point of the second period. Brooke Webster got the play started, faking a shot at the blue line and instead feeding Kennedy Marchment behind the net. Marchment found Reyes open on the left side, and Reyes one-timed Marchment’s feed into the short side for her third goal of the year and a 2-0 lead.
The assists for Webster and Marchment extended the duo’s point streak to 12 games.
Edney gave the Saints a three-goal lead with an aggressive forecheck less than five minutes later, stealing the puck from a Princeton defender right in front of the Tigers’ net and beating DaSilva on the short side with her third goal of the year.
Grace Harrison, who became the first goalie in the program’s Division I history to post back-to-back shutouts in a single weekend last week against Dartmouth and Harvard, extended her shutout streak to 226 minutes, 15 seconds, before Kiersten Falck redirected a shot from the blue line by Kelsey Koelzer and it found its way past Harrison with just 1:15 to play in the third period.
The goal ended a run of 75 consecutive stops for the reigning ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week. She finished the game with a season high 27 saves, while DaSilva made 38 saves for the Tigers. The 41 shots was a season high for the Scarlet and Brown.
St. Lawrence, now 8-0-1, 3-0-0 ECAC Hockey is off to its best start the 2005-06 season, when the team was also 8-0-1 through nine games. Princeton fell to 3-1-1, 1-1-1.
The Saints will face another tough test tomorrow as they travel to Hamden, Conn., to face fifth-ranked Quinnipiac, on Saturday at 3 p.m.
